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Meanings of drunkenness in English
Portuguese
bebedeira Catalan
borratxera 
A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol.
Synonyms
Examples for "intoxication"
Examples for "intoxication"
1
The period of decay: the joyous enthusiasm has vanished; depression succeeds intoxication.
2
Body weight and mortality rate were assessed during the month of TAA-intoxication.
3
He took the risks given his own intoxication and sense of entitlement.
4
Perhaps it was the weirdness and the tremulous intoxication of the music.
5
This is a rare case of psychiatric symptoms caused by pilsicainide intoxication.
1
Stupefaction became sleep; with sleep inebriation passed; and Frank awoke to misery.
2
She had, in a state of beastly inebriation, fallen into the fire.
3
Professor Lyall went off to hunt down the earl's source of inebriation.
4
On this last point, of inebriation, this is certainly a wonderful camp.
5
This is a country were inebriation and social interaction go hand in hand.
1
The colonel attempted to salute, but in doing so, disclosed his inebriety.
2
In a state of filthy inebriety, they uttered the most horrible imprecations.
3
Gluttony is more common than inebriety and is responsible for more ills.
4
How ludicrous is the incipient inebriety of a man who wears spectacles!
5
The classical effluvium of inebriety mingled with the classical odour of the furnished lodging.
1
There were brawls in the theatre, and tipsiness, and much license generally.
2
Reenie tells them about Patty and the conversation, including her tipsiness.
3
There is the old lounging, the old tipsiness, the old swagger, the old violence.
4
And so, in a moment of enthusiasm and tipsiness, Kate posted it on YouTube.
5
He was getting over his tipsiness by now, and began to feel the frost.
1
The trouble is, Keith was always one of my models of insobriety.
2
Those who thought a man should be sober were put off by Bobo's affection for insobriety.
3
But when he's in certain stages of insobriety his fighting instincts appear to take their own sweet way.
4
Kurupt uses the spotlight to contemplate his long and storied career, taking frequent breaks to revel in his insobriety.
5
This makes me think that we ought to be grateful to have so glaring an example of insobriety before our eyes.
Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms.
See moreUsage of drunkenness in English
1
You take one side or the other in the war against drunkenness.
2
In this case the charges were non-support and drunkenness and extreme cruelty.
3
It is by the sloth, the drunkenness or the villainy of servants.
4
It is never the kind of drunkenness you know in America, however.
5
Objection 1: It would seem that drunkenness is the gravest of sins.
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Bad liquor is at the root of half the drunkenness I know.
7
Their main revenues are drawn from the continual drunkenness of the people.
8
They passed with the utmost rapidity through all the stages of drunkenness.
9
He was verging toward complete drunkenness, but in the meantime became amorous.
10
In the meantime, you will consider yourself under an arrest for drunkenness.
11
But it was not the drunkenness of wine which inspired his soul.
12
There had been a case or two of drunkenness at the hospital.
13
Objection 1: It would seem that drunkenness is not a mortal sin.
14
Objection 1: It would seem that drunkenness does not excuse from sin.
15
But I do not read that he recanted the charge of drunkenness.
16
The abolition of drunkenness by local option is selfish, unpractical, and unscriptural.
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Translations for drunkenness
Spanish
Drunkenness through the time
Drunkenness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common